Re: [xtm-wg] XTM-ISS Important XLink difference in DTDs

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

[dale writes]
> The looseness of the current approach may work well for corpora
> like encyclopedias where the material is fairly loosely structured
and
> no significant liability issues are involved; however, for the kinds
> of repositories my clients deal with (e.g., pharmaceutical and legal
> information) precise specification of content and data type is
> important

[jack writes]
> What means *looseness*?

To my synaptically-challenged mind, if you're writing a topic map, and
you want to locate all your JPGs, then make JPG a topic, and the blobs
'o' JPG are the occurrences of that topic.

I *think* the looseness that Dale is worried about (from a "liability")
perspective, is that the occurrence of the JPG topic might not really
be a JPG file. Isn't that a consequence of stand-off markup in general,
and therefore not a topic map problem as such?

S.

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